In 100 days, he passed the stimulus bill, proposed a mortgage solution, implemented a plan for the banking crisis, closed Guantanamo, announcing to the world “the U.S. doesn”t torture,” invested in education with emphasis on fundamentals in the beginning years, along with community colleges, agreed to call for more personnel and technology to crack down on drug cartels in Mexico thereby protecting our American borders.

And then there”s the task of health care reform.

No, he is not a deity and maybe I don”t fully comprehend his plan for jump-starting the economy, but he has instilled hope during the crisis of confidence.

Barbara Torrison

Livermore

He is doing a bang-up job if you”re a socialist and want to end up as a Third World country in four years.

Lewis Hanson

Danville

Obama is called upon to deal with heads of foreign governments, despots, tyrants, and with foreign governments having centuries of experience. But Obama is an amateur going up against talented, dedicated professionals. Having no skills in government himself “” a beginner interfacing with pros, crossing swords with champions? What do you expect?

R.T. Van Kirk

Hollister

Our “rock-star” president remains popular with the masses that pay little or no attention to what is really going on. But how is he really doing? His first 100 days in office are bringing frightening results. Obama was elected because of his rousing speeches with repeated promises of change, transparency and tax relief. But his change is taking us toward socialism, world government and a larger and more intrusive federal bureaucracy.

David Glubetich

Dublin

President Obama has performed remarkably well considering the chaos he inherited: Failure in Iraq, a region that has bred-in-the-bone religious conflict that American occupation cannot cure; a necessary but stalemated war in Afghanistan responding to terrorism; the virtual economic collapse of dysfunctional, corrupt Wall Street; the reputation of the United States tarnished by the prior administration.

Bill Graham

San Jose

Using “probability of the occurrence” as the definition of expectation, it is undeniable that the president has exceeded expectations, but for the good? He campaigned on and promised change; that”s what he is doing. With a complicit Congress and in record time, he encumbered the nation with the greatest debt in U.S. history while continuing to blame the past administration. He arrogantly named scofflaws and cheats to top administrative posts. He nonchalantly dismissed America”s 232 years of Judeo-Christian heritage, while kissing-up to Muslim leaders and blaming America for the world”s problems. If these recent actions are any indication of the future, one could deduce that the president is methodically and deliberately dismantling America from within.

Ron Fedore

Dublin

I could only be happier with President Obama”s performance during his first 100 days in office if he brought all the troops home from Iraq, ended terrorism, resolved the country”s financial crisis and balanced the federal budget. I”m exaggerating of course. Given the enormous worldwide crisis”s the president inherited, the president and his administration have done a remarkable job.

Susan M. Johnson

Fremont

I have five main thoughts about Barack Obama”s first 100 days: [1] It”s refreshing to observe a politician keeping his campaign promises; [2] It”s nice to hear him answer reporter questions in an intelligent, thoughtful way; [3] I”m proud to have him represent America all over the world, and glad that he has refreshed America”s standing among world citizens; [4] I love seeing his attractive wife and children, and think that their images must inspire African-American students; [5] We all must get used to this different kind of politician “” one who listens, thinks before speaking, does his homework, and expects all of us to work toward solutions that benefit us all in the long run.

Ellen Wheeler

Mountain View

Overallm Obama has done a good job considering the number of things that were handed to him by this past administration. Opening a dialogue with those that have been our “enemies” reaching out to the Muslim world and getting rid of cowboy diplomacy are all steps to move us forward. … The first 100 days make me hopeful and I haven”t felt that in eight years.

Mieke Pagan

San Jose

I feel he is not doing a very good job at all. He takes trips to Europe to meet with 20 other nations and spends a lot of his time knocking the U.S. citizen. … His stimulus package sent trillions of dollars to the bankers that started the problem.

Charles Lung

San Jose

The question is can Obama solve the economic problem as a president or individual? I say yes. As the leader of the free America he can attempt to put into place ethical and moral guidelines that will help to heal this grave problem and protect the American people.

Muhammad Aleem Ali

Walnut Creek

With our economy in the worst shape it”s been in since the great depression, Obama has worked for a stimulus package and unlike other leaders showed his willingness to compromise in order to achieve a result.

He showed he was a regular person, even picking his own brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament. How refreshing to see a leader who was human.

And when it came to dealing with foreign leaders, he went to a Muslim country and told people there that America was not an enemy of Muslims. His foreign trip showed his ability to broker deals on the world stage.

As a Jewish American I was truly touched when Passover came and he had a Seder, the first in the White House.

What struck me from the first minute he was elected President is what Barack Obama”s election has meant to our country. People can have a dream and it can come true. Children do not have to be white to become president and as millions of Americans showed in November, people can vote, votes can be counted and change that people hope for can happen. Yes We Can.

Howard Egerman

Oakland

President Obama”s first 100 days are an unprecedented success! He is obviously a man of his word! Kudos to the first lady as well.

Baomi Watson

Hayward

Obama is doing fine, but the American people should know that things he working on will take time. Nothing happen overnight. Especially, after the Bush administration and I think he is a lot better than Bush.

Keith Roberts

Oakland

Through my eyes, the Obama administration, although human and prone to error, still offers hope for the future. They are busy about the business of cleaning up the mess left for them and are working to restore the U.S.to a reputable and honorable standing in the world. Yes, they have met my expectations. My faith has not been shaken nor do I doubt in the promises made.

100 days is not much time to fix what has been broken for decades. Check back in November, at the one-year mark, there will be indications of pass or fail, I am sure.

Kelly Loew Cokenes

San Leandro

I think that 100 days is not indicative of four years (one term). Presidential success is defined by circumstances and unforeseen issues. However, if I had to give him a grade, it would be “B” for the first 100 days. I also must say that Howdy Doody would be better than the last “president” in office.

John E. Tinsley

Union City

Obama has done a fabulous job in his first 100 days, he has united this nation. Americans are exhibiting a renewed pride in our leadership.

Obama has become a catalyst to the American people, to express our civil rights.

Our president has taken unprecedented action to save our country from the financial peril it was put into by irresponsible inaction and deregulation of the previous administrations. He has moved quickly with informed and intelligent actions.

This president is respecting our choices and leading with conscience and intellect. He has acknowledged that science is valued in the race to clean up our footprint, and has released the stranglehold on our stem-cell research.

Our president has taken the responsibility to build bridges with world leadership. Not with a hat in hand but with an outreached hand, allowing others to offer ideas and responding to them with respect and intelligence.

Rhonda Rolling

Santa Clara

Obama is the right man for the job at this critical time for the U.S.

I cannot think of another politician of whom I could say this. I am amazed by how much he has accomplished so early in his presidency, and despite his workload, he remains a wholesome family man.

Peter O”Driscoll

Los Altos

When will Obama start being a president?

I am a liberal Democrat, but deeply disappointed by Obama”s performance so far.

He has done the right thing on Iraq and I commend him for that but he continues to think like a legislator “” trying to throw money on numerous fronts hoping that something will stick. But, he is now the president and needs to focus and execute.

Pratap Banthia

San Jose

I appreciate having a leader who can command respect around the world while understanding the value of seeking good and sound advice wherever it may be found.

I appreciate having a president who possesses the natural ability to communicate to the world in multi-syllabic words and well-formed complete sentences.

I appreciate that despite the grave issues facing this country from his first day in office, our president does not need to exploit fear to support difficult decisions.

Neil Linden

Brentwood

I feel both the Obamas are fresh, honest and I feel they are the true American example of our people. I think he is trying his best in very hard times.

Pat Sanchez

Tracy

I am ecstatic with Barack Obama”s performance so far. He has been handing every issue with an awe inspiring combination of energy and intellect. We couldn”t have hoped for a better president. I voted for him and will vote for him again in 2012.

Jack Herrington

Union City

Obama has done just about everything wrong to begin his reign as president of the United States. He is working to make the United States economically and militarily weak. We have to hope he fails to fulfill his wishes. On the standard that the president should safeguard his country and leave it better off, Obama is so far earning a hugely failing grade. By following the road of irresponsible spending, Obama has out-Bushed Bush by a country mile. Obama”s anti-business agenda threatens to do more damage than even FDR burdened the country with.

Steve Stoddard

Santa Clara

This man is a breath of fresh air! His intelligence has enabled him to induce men of the same caliber to serve our country. His ability to think on his feet and relate to many different personalities makes him a very special person.

Betty Lucke

Mountain View

I think Obama is doing a great job. He shows the vitality to take on many issues that have languished for too long. He is not afraid to take his time to formulate a well thought out response. He speaks his mind and has really made intelligence sexy! He models behavior we can be proud of both here and around the world. His vitality continues to move on to new topics leaving the naysayer pundits trying to beat a dead horse, but they are about five issues behind in the dust. Obama”s first 100 days really point out to me how his age and administrative abilities have proven to be moving this country ahead by leaps and bounds.

Cindy Castillo

Sunnyvale

It seems to me that President Obama has been long on rhetoric and short on accomplishments. He likes to blame everything on President Bush, but needs to take responsibility for himself. He has loaded out country down with debt and his stimulus plan mostly isn”t working, although it may in the future. I think the American people are becoming disillusioned with him. I did not vote for him so have greatly lowered expectations and he has met them.

Connie Acton

Pinole

My expectations were low but I was excited to see new interest and energy emerge from campaign 2008.

However, the new spendthrift, “stimulus” approach, under the guise that the natural economic cycle cannot heal itself (as it always has), will drive us straight into a European-style socialism. That is not the America in which I believe.

Now my expectations are lower.

Carey Cook

Menlo Park

Our opinion of Obama”s first 100 days:

In three months, he tripled the deficit over Bush”s entire last year in office.

He is relying on discredited Keynesian economics to “solve” the U.S. recession.

The perpetrators at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their enablers in Congress got bonuses, instead of being sent to jail for gross mismanagement and fraud. Cabinet full of tax cheats.

He could have ordered the pirates holding Capt. Phillips shot immediately. Obama was indecisive for five days.

He did nothing to prevent North Korea from launching a missile.

The numerous gaffes: the inaugural oath (two times!), the wrong formatted DVDs to Gordon Brown, the “Reset” mistranslation, touching the queen of England, bowing before a Saudi. “…

His support for amnesty for illegal immigrants here.

His expanding the murder of the unborn.

… and he”s just getting started.

Mr. & Mrs. Dave Williams San Jose

I voted for Obama and I give him an F. He made the rookie mistake, e.g., Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, of taking on too much too soon, risking polarizing gridlock. … His budget and policy directions will make energy more expensive, increase our deficit and create a health care system the U.K. and Canada would reject. He signed a “stimulus” bill with less than 5 percent effect in 2009, declared war on the private sector, thus undermining TARP, TALF and PPIP, and threw nonprofits to the dogs for good measure. Many competent administrators will not join his cabinet or other senior positions.

On the plus side, he appears to be listening to his auto task forces, showed the stones to kill three pirates, and Ted Kennedy”s dog is cute.

Jack Moore

Saratoga

I expected more from this president. I am really disappointed that he broke his promise to go line by line on the budget and stimulus. All the earmarks that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid put in where left in tact. Taxpayers will be stuck with this bloated budget and stimulus for years to come. That means more taxes on all of us. When he was in Europe, he apologized for U.S. and received zero support from Europe. He seems more interested in his popularity then working with Republicans. I find that he is not a strong leader, a good talker but no substance. So I rate him at 25 percent out of 100 percent.

Vicky Melin

Cupertino

I would like to weigh in on President Obama”s first 100 days. Americans are very interesting. We had eight years of a president who did nothing. We did not like the results of doing nothing. Then we get someone that actually does something, and people have a fit.

Make up your minds folks. One hundred days did not create the economic mess. Eight years of Bush created this mess. The over-the-top greedy Wall Street investors and bankers that the Bush administration allowed to function, is what got us in trouble.

Letitia Shelby

San Ramon

Probably most importantly, he has entirely changed the image of the U.S. in the world, reversing Bush”s angry, paranoid, distrustful and arrogant attitude, and is extending the hand of cooperation and mutual interest from a position of strength and confidence.

Domestically he has emphasized the importance of planning for the future, in regards to education, the environment and the economy.

For the economy, he is being practical, injecting government spending to soften and shorten the recession. He has not, though, moved in a forthright and candid way to honestly reform the financial services industry, or at least we haven”t seen enough of his plans to do so.

My fear is that without this, Wall Street will fall back into their bad old ways, and we are in for another bubble in some form, simply because that is the way Wall Street works. But how Wall Street works is toxic for the rest of us in the real world, but is the necessary reform and regulation in the cards? I don”t see it …

Nevertheless, given the incredible challenges we face, I cannot think of any other person I would rather see in the office right now.

Tim Wallace

San Jose

How”s Obama doing? Well, if you like big government, deficits larger than the combined deficits of every president before, socialized medicine, banking and car companies, then he”s doing great. If you like inflationary monetary policies, money for terrorists in Gaza, continuation of Bush”s policies in Iraq, cuts to the military budget while we”re at war, but a “spendulous” bill with money for new programs 10 years out then you”re pretty happy with Barry Hussein.

If you”re happy that Iran is adding centrifuges, North Korea will ready more missiles, the former Soviet republics are closing American supply bases, then you see the respect that Obama”s rock-star image garners him on the international stage.

Personally, I think all the above are all the wrong steps to take and I hope that he wakes up to the reality that socialism (Obamunism if you will) has never worked and won”t work here either.

Joe Silva

Pleasanton

We are citizens, not pundits. We have responsibilities. We need to ask ourselves how we did during these first 100 days. Did we unite behind the president we elected or were we busy planning ways to subvert the will of the people and undermine any chance he might have to do some good? Did we stand up for the truth or did we just go giggling along with whatever our favorite pundits led us to believe? Did we listen to the same old people with their same old failed partisan errors arguing with each other to no end, or did we change the channel and seek a better way? We cannot judge a president like some contestant in a talent show. The voting is over. Barack Obama is our president and he has rightly told us that the time has come to set aside childish things. He needs our help.

Sherry Blair

Hayward

My hope and inspiration remain enthusiastically intact. In the last 100 days, Obama has brought us precisely what we asked for: change. His budget has been aggressive. To some it is frightening, to others necessary. Will it work? We elected him because we have faith in his ability to make tough decisions. He has brought openness, communication and a refreshing wave of cultural respect. The world now shares our enthusiasm. We are now working on an international front to fix the mess into which we have gotten ourselves. It took the patience and poise of Obama to do this. So yes, I think we can say it has been a success thus far.

Shannon Woodworth

San Leandro

Most of us voted for President Obama because he had a solid, coherent plan for fixing America”s problem. He told us what he planned to do. He is carrying out that plan. He explains what he is doing as he goes along. I think he”s doing a great job.

Jerome Fishkin

Walnut Creek

Basically, lousy.

We desperately need constitutional amendments in a number of areas.

Congress spending is in desperate need of reform. Legalizing and adapting the line item veto would be a very small first step. The bailout of selected organizations has been a saddle we have put on this old horse that will never come off.

We should only spend money on things that will have a payoff. Solar and wind energy, toll roads and bridges, high-speed ground transportation, etc.

The two-party system definitely does not work, yet they have acquired so much power we can”t get rid of it. The Democrats think the Republicans are the No. 1 enemy and vice versa. Money and parties determine the candidates and dictate the legislation. All candidates should be given so much federal money and TV time and that”s it. Campaign contributions should be totally illegal. Our government is one of the most corrupt in the world. The present system invites it. People get elected and vow to change the system, but after a couple of years the system changes them. Members of Congress can”t see the forest for the trees and don”t go near the most fundamental issues and problems.

The income tax code is a mess. Something akin to the “fair tax” or a national sales tax should be adapted and do away with income tax. This would force illegal immigrants, foreign visitors, everyone in this country to pay taxes. Other countries do it. We could gradually transition into it over a decade or so by gradually increasing the sales tax and decreasing the income tax.

Robert Corzine

Ridgecrest

After the elections, I had hopes, like most Americans, that the new administration would bring about logical and disciplined solutions to the numerous issues facing our great nation. I have been deeply disappointed and alarmed with actions taken to address our most serious issues. These include, but are not limited to:

Appointing various members to key positions that are either not qualified or have major past issues making these appointments extremely questionable.

Spending money we do not have to stimulate the economy at the expense of future generations! The “bailout” effort is so corrupted with the payoffs to corporate officers that I cannot conceive its being properly administered by anyone in authority.

The effort to provide health care to every American is admirable but the costs to the average tax payer is unbearable!

Illegal immigrants receiving moneys from our various social programs is absolutely ridiculous. They should be returned to their countries of origin and not permitted to return!

Obama is an embarrassment to our nation by his “bowing” to the Saudi prince when meeting him and no president of our nation should bow before another leader. This was such a major error and I believe the media has tried to downplay its significance.

In general, I believe that Obama is not capable to lead our nation in its most difficult times and I am still not convinced that he has shown proper documentation to indicate he”s eligible to be President! If he has the documentation, why doesn”t he produce it and quiet his critics?

A. J. Froumis

Morgan Hill

I agree with Obama respecting reproductive rights, stem cell research, his alleged support for the traditional concept of the word “marriage,” and alleged support for military veterans, particularly the wounded. I also commend him for having the wisdom and courage to act against the Somali pirates.

I totally disagree with the rest of his agenda, I regard him as having a socialist, statist, collectivist, intolerant and arrogant mentality.

Edward Zawatson

Concord

I am 98 years old, physically good for 98; financially, income is really bad. My husband and I saved. Investments are down … Concerned about the homeless and hungry. I am unable to send money to the Salvation Army and others.

Mary Elinor Sabine

Oakland

Please, STOP printing money! STOP spending money we don”t have! STOP telling lies! STOP passing laws that you or your family don”t have to follow like health care. Our health care is the best in the world. Ted Kennedy should be aware and thankful for the fact.

Last but not lest. You have such compassion for the terrorist captured on the battlefield. Of course, we don”t torture anyone! Except unborn babies. They can be killed and our government will pay for the procedure all over the world.

Also, please read our wonderful constitution and the history of our great country.

Dorothy Noonan

San Leandro

I think that President Obama is doing a wonderful job as the 44th president. I think he has met all of his expectations. ….Only if he could get those grumpy old set-in-the-ways Republicans on board.

Mary Turner

Oakland

The first 100 days in my opinion, President Obama has let his light continue to shine. He is not swayed by the negativity of his critics nor discouraged by the media. He has exhibited leadership and given “We the People” an open line of communication as to his endeavors… He isn”t hiding behind facades and double talk. I believe he is doing a great job and I”m rooting for him all the way.

Vickki Savoygriffin

San Lorenzo

I believe President Barack Obama will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents in history. … I am 83 years old and I remember President Franklin Roosevelt who did many things to improve the economy, however, I think President Obama is doing more. I also believe this president will succeed in his goals.

Carlos Sandoval

Hayward

Keep up the good job for all is looking like heaven to me. … The prayer is that what all comes from this is that people will be more happy soon. I think each time I see you that you”re what we needed.